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<blockquote data-quote="LeslieT" data-source="post: 1092766" data-attributes="member: 167636"><p>Thanks, but I don't think you read my earlier response. Although I didn't delete the Mail folder, what got me into the mess in the first place was copying to the flash drive the same files you recommend copying and then copying them to the right location on the iMac. I do appreciate the suggestion, though, especially about using two Finder Windows. As I said earlier, I finally found the mailbox files that were migrated on Sunday with Migration Assistant. They were in the wrong place - somewhere I never would've thought to look without Spotlight. Once I moved them to where they should've been placed, all but one of my old mailboxes were there. </p><p></p><p>Still unable to open Mail, I re-established my mail account (which had been unaccountably deleted). I then could see the migrated boxes. Of course, in the meantime, other emails had come in PLUS I discovered some in the box that did NOT migrate had not been re-filed into the right mailbox (my fault entirely). </p><p></p><p>I next followed your suggestion about copying just those individual mailboxes with new mail to a flash drive and tried to copy them into the right mail location on the iMac. Although Finder said the copied mailboxes WERE replacing the mailboxes, in fact they did NOT. When I opened the boxes, the new mail was not there. It's gone from my email server so . . . . . </p><p></p><p>I regret not doing what seemed terribly clunky starting out . . . . importing these mailboxes AND my address book into Thunderbird and then exporting Thunderbird's mailboxes to the iMac and importing them into Apple Mail there. The annoying thing about doing this is that once the export/import is completed all the moved emails are listed as unread. Using Thunderbird is what I had to do to move all the Windows email . . . . but I expected Apple to have a more elegant solution. Evidently not. Not if you can't count on Migration Assistant to properly place the mailboxes or at least give you the option to do so. </p><p></p><p>Migration Assistant appears to have done the same thing with Address Book, Cookies, Safari Bookmarks, and KeyChain - it put them under the Macintosh HD location and not in the User/Library location. I'm hesitant to move them, but as it worked with mail here's hoping it works with them.</p><p>LeslieT</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LeslieT, post: 1092766, member: 167636"] Thanks, but I don't think you read my earlier response. Although I didn't delete the Mail folder, what got me into the mess in the first place was copying to the flash drive the same files you recommend copying and then copying them to the right location on the iMac. I do appreciate the suggestion, though, especially about using two Finder Windows. As I said earlier, I finally found the mailbox files that were migrated on Sunday with Migration Assistant. They were in the wrong place - somewhere I never would've thought to look without Spotlight. Once I moved them to where they should've been placed, all but one of my old mailboxes were there. Still unable to open Mail, I re-established my mail account (which had been unaccountably deleted). I then could see the migrated boxes. Of course, in the meantime, other emails had come in PLUS I discovered some in the box that did NOT migrate had not been re-filed into the right mailbox (my fault entirely). I next followed your suggestion about copying just those individual mailboxes with new mail to a flash drive and tried to copy them into the right mail location on the iMac. Although Finder said the copied mailboxes WERE replacing the mailboxes, in fact they did NOT. When I opened the boxes, the new mail was not there. It's gone from my email server so . . . . . I regret not doing what seemed terribly clunky starting out . . . . importing these mailboxes AND my address book into Thunderbird and then exporting Thunderbird's mailboxes to the iMac and importing them into Apple Mail there. The annoying thing about doing this is that once the export/import is completed all the moved emails are listed as unread. Using Thunderbird is what I had to do to move all the Windows email . . . . but I expected Apple to have a more elegant solution. Evidently not. Not if you can't count on Migration Assistant to properly place the mailboxes or at least give you the option to do so. Migration Assistant appears to have done the same thing with Address Book, Cookies, Safari Bookmarks, and KeyChain - it put them under the Macintosh HD location and not in the User/Library location. I'm hesitant to move them, but as it worked with mail here's hoping it works with them. LeslieT [/QUOTE]
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